Fix Our Roads,
Governor!
community have lots of good ideas.
We want them to continue to be engaged,
to keep communications open, and
to help them understand that at the
current funding levels our roads will
continue to deteriorate. The City is
reviewing infrastructure needs and will
be identifying potential funding options
to find an affordable and sustainable
solution that the community will
support.”
Visit the City of Morgan Hill website,
morgan-hill.ca.gov/1201/Safe-Sustainable-
Streets.
Gilroy 2017
When Gilroy’s Department of Public
Works gave its State of the Streets Report
to the City in April 2016, then-Mayor
Perry Woodward suggested that the City
Council dip into General Fund reserves
to supplement its budget for maintaining
city streets and roads. The Council
voted and approved an additional $2.5
million for this work, which includes
all of the activities that go into road
design, construction, and construction
management.
City of Gilroy Phase I
Pavement Maintenance Projects:
Phase I projects are currently under
construction and will improve sections
of Miller, Welburn and Murray Avenues,
Third Street, and Princevalle Street; and
bring average PCI values into or higher
in the target range of 70-100 on those
street segments.
Total Project Area: 710,063 sq.ft.
Estimated Cost: $1.3 million
City of Gilroy Phase II
Pavement Maintenance Projects:
Phase II projects currently in the design
phase will tentatively improve sections
of Church Street, San Ysidro Avenue,
Uvas Park Drive, Welburn Avenue, and
Westwood Drive; and bring PCI values
into or higher in the target range of
70-100 on those street segments.
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Total Project Area: 627,000 sq.ft.
Estimated Cost: $1.1 million.
According to Gilroy’s Interim City
Engineer David Stubchaer, “It’s not
just the pavement condition of a
road that determines its priority for
road maintenance, we have to look at
individual streets as part of the citywide
system. We look at traffic counts. It’s a
higher priority to maintain arterial and
collector roads because more people use
those roads.”
According to the Gilroy State of the
Streets report, if the current funding
level of roughly $300,000 per year
remains the same over the next 15
years, the average PCI for the city’s
streets will drop to 34, or “Poor”
condition.
“Currently we have $2.5 million for
Phase I and II projects. We anticipate
$1 million in annual funding from
Measure B, and we will continue to
go after grants,” Stubchaer said. “This
multi-pronged approach will help us
slow the decline in Gilroy’s average
PCI, but without grants, we’re still
approximately $2.2 million short on
an annual basis. We have to make the
tough decisions with limited budget
resources.”
GILROY • MORGAN HILL • SAN MARTIN
MARCH/APRIL 2017
n January, Governor Brown
renewed his commitment to
infrastructure and asked state
legislators to work together to fund
improvements. The Fix Our Roads
Coalition applauded Brown and called
for support of two bills, Senate Bill
1 (Beall-San Jose) and Assembly Bill
1 (Frazier-Oakley), both of which
would establish additional funding and
accountability reforms for these types
of improvements. According to data
shared by the Coalition:
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California drivers pay an
average of $762 annually in car
repairs due to pothole-filled
roads. (National Transportation
Research – TRIP, 2016)
It costs eight times more to
fix a road than to maintain it.
Preventive care cost: $115,000
per mile. Rehabilitative care
cost: $894,000 per mile.
(CalTrans State of the Pavement
report, 2015)
California’s 2016 statewide
average Pavement Condition
Index was 65 (“Good/At
Risk”). (California Statewide
Local Streets and Roads Needs
Assessment, 2016)
Learn more online at fixcaroads.com or
on Twitter, @FixCARoads.
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